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No. 514,585. Patented Peb. 1s, 1894- FIG. l.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUDOLF ALIFELD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 514,585, dated February 13, 1894,

Application iiled September 15,1893 Serial No. 485,534. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, RUDOLF ALIEELD, of New York city, New York, have invented an Improved lardrobe-Trunk, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to a wardrobe trunk, which is so constructed that the clothes therein suspended will not wrinkle, whether the trunk is open or closed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a vertical cross section of my improved Wardrobe trunk, showing it closed. Fig. 2 is a similar section showing it open and Fig. 3 a front view of Fig. 2.

The letter a, represents a trunk provided with the hinged cover b, as usual. Within this cover are arranged hooks b', for suspending clothes, which may be confined in place by straps b2. At the front, the trunk is provided with a hinged lid c, which may be raised orlowered and which when raised may be locked to the cover b, byalock o', to close the trunk.

Back of the folding lid c, the trunk is provided with a short upright partition d, and an inclined partition d', the latter extending from the top of partition d, toward the front of the trunk.

The space inclosed by the lid c, and part-itions d, d', constitutes a drawer case and contains two, more or less, drawers e, e. Of these drawers the upper one e', is provided with inclined end pieces, which taper from the front toward the rear, so as to conform to the shape of the case beneath the inclined partition d".

In use, the trunk is opened and the lid c, is lowered, when access to all the drawers may be had. The clothes suspended from the hooks b', will extend down into the body of the trunk, back of partition d. When the trunk is closed the hooks will be placed above the front end of the partition (Fig. l) and if the straps bshould become distended or loosened, the clothes will be supported by the inclined partition d', up to its rear end and will thence be guided into the rear of the trunk by partition d. Thus no sudden break or crease can possibly he formed, which is a matter of considerable importance during travel, where trunks are usually roughly handled.

What I claim is- A wardrobe trunk provided with a folding lid, a partition back of the lid, a hinged cover and a set of hooks Within the cover which are placed above the forward end of the partition when the trunk is closed, substantially as specified.

RUDOLF ALIFELD.

Witnesses:

HERZ ROSENTHAL, F. v. BRIESEN. 

